Wedding Wednesday

Since we were already on the subject of Dutch Royalty just yesterday, I thought we'd just stay right on track and discuss the gorgeous engagement ring that belongs t Queen Maxima of the Netherlands.

I thought I'd mix it up for #WeddingWednesday and for the next several weeks, we'll focus on royal engagement and wedding rings. We'll look at royals from all of the world - current and historic - and the engagement rings they received. Rather than starting with the obvious (I'm never that easy), I thought we'd reach out and start with a royal that may be a little lesser known: Princess Tatiana Blatnik of Greece.

They say you don't get to choose love. It chooses you. And apparently, one doesn't have much choice on where it strikes either. I guess rehab is as good a place as anywhere else. I bet if you were able to ask Elizabeth Taylor and Larry Fortensky they'd agree.

It was a love for the ages. Or so it seemed for a while. It was definitely one for the history books! When Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton got together, both were married to others. Liz to Eddie Fisher and Richard to Sybil Williams. But apparently theirs was a love not to be denied. And thank goodness because just wait until you see the jewelry.

The third time is a charm. That's what they say, right? For Elizabeth Taylor, she thought she'd found true love with husband number three, Mike Todd. Fresh from marriage number two, she fell hard for the 47 year old Todd (she was only 24). He was also twice divorced. What drew Elizabeth Taylor and Mike Todd together? Maybe it was the engagement ring that won her over. Maybe it was him. Sadly, we'll never know.

They say the third time's a charm. But that's not always the case. Actually, in the case of Rita Hayworth, it appears not the third, fourth nor fifth time sealed the deal. But we find it interesting that she was married to four of her five husbands for five years each. The one exception: Dick Haymes, to whom she was only married for two. And now we know why. Here's the story of Rita Hayworth and Dick Haymes.

Did she break up the band or didn't she? That's been the big question for nearly five decades. John Lennon and Yoko Ono met in November of 1966 at an art gallery opening in London where Ono's work was soon to be on exhibit. Was it love at first sight? Who's to say. But it was certainly a whirlwind and sometimes controversial relationship.

We know him as the man that didn't give a damn. And her for her screwball comedies. Theirs was a short lived love but one that changed...